Chatham Whitespace is an audio visual installation by blackhole-factory: speculations over a city from a distance - visualisation of a social network. In winter 07/ 08 our webminig software was observing the online publishing of the local news of a newspaper in Chatham, Ontario over a period of 3 month, filling a database with stories which are reflecting topics beeing discussed in the city at that time. After that research period we got nearly 400 articles in the database. In the installation a software lets the news link to each other over common keywords. Following these links the system generates a unique walk combining fragments of stories and illustrates them with images found on the internet. Starting at a random keyword the software looks for all sentences which contains it, choose one of them and steps through it word by word. A filter is filtering out minor words. The resulting textstream is used to trigger a Google image search engine. One of the words is choosen randomly to become the next keyword. On the x- and y-axes the 3d graphic shows the date the current sentence was published . The z-axes (dimension of the sphere) signify the amount of stories containing the current keyword. programmed in max/msp jitter Chatham Whitespace was presented as part of a group exhibition at the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Canada, April 4 - May 4, 2008 www.blackhole-factory.com (please choose QuickTime version on the left for best quality)
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2008-08-12 09:07:03
Color
color
Format
Video
Holder
blackhole-factory
Identifier
blackholefactoryChathamWhitespace
Keywords
blackhole-factory, Elke Utermoehlen, Martin Slawig, max/msp jitter, installation, Chatham, Canada